- Jabberwock on Syfy, starred Tahmoh Penikett (Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, Mortal Kombat: Legacy web series) who led a relatively unknown cast that was directed by Steven R. Monroe (I Spit on Your Grave).
Jabberwock* is produced by American World Pictures. *(The movie name is Jabberwock, not Jabberwocky as a few sites out there mistakenly call it.)
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The TV movie opens with two men on their horses that come to a watering hole, hoping for water, but the water isn’t too safe to drink. One of them talks about a great winged monster that terrorized the region sometime in the past and the first one laughs.
A very sudden thunderstorm erupts and they dash away from the water, but a poorly devised visual effect of lightning strikes hit an egg-shaped rock, hatching an itty-bitty winged beast which grows to full size within about a minute and then goes off to hunt our two poor victims. One gets away, forcing him to have to live even longer throughout the movie.
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Mortal Kombat: Legacy Web Series
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I’ve been seeing the headlines about the online series, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, but I didn’t pursue it. I presumed a few different things that didn’t promote my following up on the news. Today I was pulled in and checked out the first 7 episodes of this online series.
At first, without reading into it, I presumed this was an iTunes thing because, well, iTunes has many cool things. But instead, I found it on YouTube. (This makes it a Cinema Static YouTube pick!)
I ‘tuned’ into the first episode of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, titled “Ep. 1 – Jax, Sonya and Kano (Part 1).”
My second surprise was the cast that I was presented with. I was expecting this to be an indie kind of project with friends of the creators, AKA, potential non-name cast. Something that we usually see in these kinds of things. (That’s not a bad thing… it’s just what it is.)
Again, WRONG! First minute or two I was presented with actor faces that I knew from television, and subsequent episodes also had familiar faces. Familiar faces from past genre projects!
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The Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) announced that Eliza Dushku will be appearing for the March 19/20th weekend event, signing autographs and taking part in Q & A’s
Alongside Ms. Dushku, Dollhouse & Battlestar Galactica star Tahmoh Penikett will also be there.
See more at CBR’s Celeb Appearances article.
Just thought I’d pass along the reminder that the series-finale of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse takes place on January 22nd, 2010. The final episodes leading up to this last day will be
- January 8th: “Getting Closer.”
- January 15th: “The Hollow Men.”
- The series finale on January 22nd: “Epitath Two: Return.” Felicia Day and Adair Tishler guest star.
It will be the end of a much tormented science fiction, fantasy TV series run that never quite caught on with the general viewing public.
I even had a feeling that despite the hard-core fan-base wanting Joss’s latest television effort to succeed, even some of us were hard pressed to really enjoy Dollhouse at times. Sometimes the show just dragged for me and at other times it hit on all 10 cylinders of its 8-cylinder engine. It just didn’t revv up enough to catch a foothold.
It didn’t help when viewers called it things like a show about trafficking.
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